Mercy

This is a special year. When Pope Francis declared this year as the Extraordinary Holy year of Mercy, and announced it a jubilee year! I knew it was unprecedented as usually The Catholic church has called jubilee years every 25 or 50 years since the year 1300.

This year is known as an extraordinary jubilee year of Mercy since it has only been 16 years since the last jubilee year in 2000. The Pope being the spiritual shepherd of the universal church only knows why, why now?

I am sure in his heart, he truly desires all catholics both practicing their faith and in name only to embrace this “extraordinary jubilee”,  along with all our evangelical brothers and sisters in Christ to be more aware now than ever, that we have a merciful God! Our God is so good! We can never mess up so badly, that we are not worthy of his mercy.

God’s love for you is infinite and his mercy is boundless. Look at the cross…giving is part of God’s whole system.  He gave his only begotten son for you! This Good Friday, let us recall that great sacrifice and contemplate on how much he loves. How the Lord loves you!

Last week on Catholic radio, as I listened to my Ave Maria Radio app a radio host discussed how God wants us to show his mercy. The shows topic was enthronement of the image of Divine Mercy. God gives us three ways to show mercy for our neighbor. He calls each of us to show his mercy in Love, with our deeds, words and prayers. How simple, yet how beautiful.  Let us show mercy and make an effort to show love in these three areas with the people in our lives. After all that is what mercy really is, it is Love.

This world needs mercy now more than ever before. Let us always have confidence in our God, in his mercy, and know that no matter how many times we fail. He will never fail us, and his mercy is always available to us, all the days of our lives. What a good God we have!  My prayers are for you to have a blessed and transforming Holy Week, may you be an instrument of God’s mercy and hope to those in your life. What deeds will you do? How can your words show mercy? Whom will you pray for?

Ephesians 2: 4-5

“But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.”

Ephesians 3:12

“In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.”

Luke 6:38

“Give and it shall be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”